How to prepare the soil for seedlings

The end of February-beginning of March is the hot season for gardeners. It's time to start growing home seedlings. So that the seedlings have grown healthy and strong, it is necessary to properly prepare a ball.

The substrate for seedlings must contain various components:

organic (sheet / cloth land, riding peat, sustained humid, overwhelming sawdust, fallen needles, moss-sphagnum, crushed peanut shell, birch ash, crushed egg shell, grain husk);
inorganic (river coarse sand, perlite, vermiculite, crushed clay, foam crumb, hydrogel).

Grinding to growing seedlings must comply with the following requirements:

a homogeneous loose structure (an important condition for normal aeration of the root system of seedlings);
balanced composition (the presence of organic and mineral components for the full development of seedlings);
neutral acidity level (recommended indicators for seedlings - pH 6.5 - 7.0).

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The preparation of the substrate is embarking about 30-40 days before the seed landing. A step-by-step scheme of the preparation of a universal confined substrate, which consists of fertile land (sheet or turf), coarse sand, dung humus and sawdust (2: 1: 1: 0.5 ratio), such:

Estate tight polyethylene and twice as a lot of land to grind large lumps and separate the plant residues, weed seeds, pebbles and pests larvae.
Next, add the rest of the components to the sifted soil, mix all the components thoroughly before producing loose and homogeneous mass.
After that, draw disinfection of the prepared soil mixture.
To improve the quality of the seedliness, add the chopped eggshell, wood ash and foam crumb.

Separate attention deserves the stage of the disinfection of the soil. The use of soils in the original form is fraught with various diseases of seedlings and even complete death of seedlings. Properly spent disinfection effectively destroys pathogenic bacteria and microorganisms, spores of mold mushrooms, eggs, pupae and small pest larvae. There are several options for disinfection of the soil:

marching;
calcination;
steaming.

For the disinfection of the soil, you can also use a solution of manganese or special disinfection drugs, such as actuar or foundation.

The highest quality is the formation of a seaside ground by steam. It is more convenient to disappear the soil in metallic colander, fascinating cloth or multi-layer gauze. It is filled with a 2/3 substrate, set over dishes with boiling water and tightly covered with a suitable size. Soil withstand over the ferry about 20-35 minutes. In the process of steaming the soil periodically stirred. Upon completion of heat treatment, the nutrient mixture is carefully poured on paper and evenly spill. To avoid secondary contamination by pathogens, the cooled soil is packaged into sterile containers (bags, bags or containers). Until the moment planting seedlings Prepared soil stored in a dark and cool place.

Advice! The disinfected substrate is desirable to be treated with a phytopreparation "Biomaster M4" - such a procedure is necessary to restore the impaired soil microflora.

If you did not have time to prepare the seedliness, use the purchased substrate to grow cacti or succulents. It is characterized by a suitable porous structure and necessary aero and moisture permeability. True, before planing seeds, such a primer will have to be deasided. It is possible to normalize the acidity of the shop soil mixture with the help of dolomite flour or wood ash.